Visitors pose in front of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in Washington on Thursday, the 45th anniversary of the assassination of the civil rights leader.

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Jerry Mitchell
| The Clarion-Ledger

Forty-five years after the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the one-time chief counsel for the House Select Committee on Assassinations says the FBI should run unidentified fingerprints collected during its investigation.

"Thoughtful people today, not just nuts, think that more people than James Earl Ray were involved," said G. Robert Blakey, a former Justice Department official who served as staff director to the House committee between 1977 and 1979.

Almost a year after King's April 4, 1968, assassination, Ray pleaded guilty to murder and was sentenced to life in ...